June, 25, 2016 HGSI Software Upgrade Notes HGSI V8 Build 29014 (replaces build 28637) ADD-ONS NEW: Ron Brown Investing update 06-15-2016 will be automatically installed as part of the HGSI software update release. There is no need to download from the Add-On webpage After the new HGSI Software is installed you will see the following message. Click yes to allow the changes to be made to the Add-ons shown in the ADD-ONS section of the HGSI WhatIsNewV8 document. Click no if you need time to rename or move a copy of them to your User folders. HGSI will remind you of the update each time you close and restart HGSI. CHARTING FEATURES FIXED: If a Chart View had the View Option set for Extra Periods to be added to the right hand side of the chart and the Chart Mode was set to Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or Yearly any annotations, such as a trend line, that started or ended in the Extra Periods area would disappear when the Chart Mode was changed to display a more detailed chart line e.g. changing from Weekly to Daily.
WAREHOUSE FEATURES IMPROVED: A check box has been added to the Make Group feature in the Warehouse Spectrum Analyzer that will add the date of the last Data Update to the front of the slice in the format YYYY-MM-DD. This checkbox option setting is remembered. NOTE: This date is not the calendar date when the group was created, e.g. the group is created on a Saturday or Sunday but the date is from Friday or the date of the last Data Update.
NEW: Search boxes have been added to the Warehouse Sort, Combo and Spectrum Analyzer dialogs: Warehouse Sort dialog to enable searching for the sort data fields easier Warehouse Spectrum Analyzer Field To Analyze dialog to enable searching for the field to slice Warehouse Combo Rule dialog to enable searching for the field to rank
DATA FIELDS FOR USE IN FILTERS AND WAREHOUSE IMPROVED: %Cl / VPOC10/10 Added Green (>= 0) and Red coloring when used in the Warehouse. Fields that are both green and red showing a 0.0% value are the result of rounding. Green is 0 or slightly above. Red is slightly negative but "round" to 0. NEW: % Close Moving Average Fields These 7 new % Close fields are variants of existing HGSI %Cl/Moving Average fields % Cl/3 DEMA % Cl/6 DEMA % Cl/18 DEMA % Cl/50 DEMA % Cl/100 DEMA % Cl/200 DEMA % Cl/20 DEMA NEW: Chart Patterns Days Since Crossover Fields These 2 new Days Since Crossover fields are just like the existing Days Since 17DMA Crossed 50DMA only using exponential moving averages (which weight more recent days higher). Days Since 20DEMA Crossed 50DEMA Days Dn Since 20DEMA Crossed 50DEMA
FILTER FEATURES Search boxes have been added to the Edit Filter dialog: Edit Filter dialog Field Name drop down window enables searching for a field Edit Filter dialog Value drop down window when the Field Name selected is Group Member to enable finding a group from the Group Database easier END OF UPDATES FOR BUILD 29014
May 1, 2016 HGSI Software Upgrade Notes HGSI V8 Build 28637 (replaces build 28569) INSTALLATION When HGSI is installed for the first time, it installs the HGSI Software, HGSI Database and several optional Add-ons. Add-ons contain ready-made Filters, Chart Views, Warehouse Views and Combo Ranks that facilitate the use of HGSI. NEW: Prior to this release HGSI Add-ons had to be installed separately by downloading them from the HGSI Website. Starting with this release of HGSI, Add-ons shipped with HGSI, will also be updated along with the HGSI software and HGSI Database. When new add-on updates are available you will see the following message during the installation. Click yes to allow the changes to be made to the Add-ons shown in the ADD-ONS section of the HGSI WhatIsNewV8 document. Click no if you need time to rename or move a copy of them to your User folders. HGSI will remind you of the update each time you close and restart HGSI. ADD-ONS NEW: A new Ron Brown set of ADD-ON folders will be installed. They will contain all of Ron Brown s latest work. These new Filters, Views and Combo Ranks will be used to focus and concentrate on a few processes, primarily using volume and price analysis, to find investment opportunities that will help users of these strategies improve their portfolio P&L. For more information contact Ron Brown at ron@highgrowthstock.com
DESIGNER IMPROVED: Fixed the problem where the line separating the designer mini-toolbar would vanish when the warehouse opened up. IMPROVED: Fixed bug in designer strategy back test final report. The value for percent of trades exited early wasn't rolling up correctly into the group and for all stocks. This only appeared if you use the stop loss control.
CHARTING CHOOSE/CREATE CHARTING VIEW WINDOW: IMPROVED: Fixed the search field problem when using the special search text $hgsi_bad. The search would flag VFB's as having an error if the applied filter option was being used rather than a specific selected filter. VOLUME PRICE ANALYSIS CHARTING INDICATOR: UPDATED: The original HGSI TechTalk PDF document has been updated as of 5/1/2016. Click here for the updated 5/1/2016 PDF: Volume Price Analysis. The HGSI Help system for Volume Price Analysis has also been updated. NEW: Added the following VPA signal text descriptions to the VPA upper left corner: nut: Reached new recent high on higher volume but failed to hold Example of nut: ACTG on 4/20/2012 toprevbar: Reached new recent high but failed to hold Example of toprevbar: MSFT on 06/04/2013 FILTER & DATA FIELDS Location: Chart Indicators > Float Turnover Folder Field Name NEW: % Cl/Float Turnover High NEW: % Cl/Float Turnover Low NEW: Float Turnover Description This is the percent difference from the close and YESTERDAYS Float Turnover Channel High value. It's the difference from the close and the stock's high during the last turnover. When positive it means the stock has broken out of the high during the last turnover. When this is negative the stock is still below the most recent turnover's high water mark. This is the percent difference from the close and YESTERDAYS Float Turnover Channel Low value. It's the difference from the close and the stock's low during the last turnover. When negative it means the stock has broken below the low during the last turnover. When this is positive the stock is still above the most recent turnover's low water mark. The actual number of days the stock has taken for its daily volume to add up to the float. This is the float turnover you can see in the charting indicator Float Turnover Channel.
NEW: Float Turnover 5-Dy Slope CHG: Float Turnover 50DMAV This is the 5 day best fit slope of the float turnover line from the charting indicator Float Turnover Channel (the blue line). A negative slope means the volume is increasing (since the more the volume goes up the faster the stock turns over and the lower the float turnover days) Float divided by the 50 day moving average volume. NOTE: This field was previously named Float Turnover and located in the Fund > General folder. It has been renamed to Float Turnover 50DMAV and moved to Charting Indicators > Float Turnover. Location: Chart Patterns > Volume At Price Folder Field Name NEW: % Cl/VPOC10/10 NEW: Days Dn Since VPOC 10/10 Crossover NEW: Days since VPOC 10/10 Crossover NEW: VPOC 10/10 Location: Fund-Earnings > %EPS and Fund-Revenue > % Rev Folders Field Name NEW: % EPS %Chg - 1 NEW: % Rev %Chg - 1 END OF UPDATES FOR BUILD 28637 Description The difference between the Close and the VPOC 10/10. Greater than 0 and the close is above the VPOC, less than 0 and the close is below the VPOC Days since the close crossed below the VPOC. 0 means today Days since the close crossed above the VPOC. 0 means today The VPOC on a 10 period, 10 bucket settings. Same as the charting indicator on the last day of the chart. Description Percent change of the last two quarters earnings year over year percent change. A measure of EPS acceleration for the last two quarters. Uses HGSI SmartPercent in order to compute the percent change, as a result values can be extreme when going from negative to positive. Tiny earnings compared on a percentage basis to more normal values can have outsized percent change measures. Percent change of the last two quarters revenue year over year percent change. A measure of revenue acceleration for the last two quarters. Uses HGSI SmartPercent in order to compute the percent change, as a result values can be extreme when going from negative to positive.